Fitzcarraldo
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West Germany, Peru · 1982
Rated PG · 2h 37m
Director Werner Herzog
Starring Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Ángel Fuentes
Genre Adventure, Drama
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An ambitious developer of theaters plans to build an opera house in a village in the Peruvian Amazon. In order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote region of the rainforest, which rests on successfully pulling a steamship over a mountain.
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